I recently had a flash drive failure and now I'm having some trouble with Precise Puppy 5.7.1 (it's the same installation, I didn't change a thing since the failure) and it gives me the following message when I try to use an app or program: “SFS-Load: fatal: fail to add '/initrd/pup_ro6' to unionfs”

Further more, it deleted some of the apps and software I had running as sfs files: LibreOffice and Poedit, Glade, Sysprof Profile and Valide. Now I cannot reinstall them because it gives me the described error. Strangely enough, Skype and Qt, also loaded as sfs files, run without problems (maybe they are linked to one of the other pup_ro folders) and for Poedit I just mounted the sfs (“view contents”) and copied the files to each respective folder inside my system.

I used to translate the Portuguese language package the “old way” by mounting the devx file and edit on Poedit and Geany using the MoManager installed by default on Precise Puppy 5.7.1. After the error I had to make the above-mentioned changes to Poedit to get it to work and I also had to install i-18n-tools by Bert (formerly MM Standalone) and the new MoManager (20140104) to continue the language adaptation.

Does anyone know how to solve the “SFS-Load: fatal: fail to add '/initrd/pup_ro6' to unionfs” error?

If one installs precise puppy 5.7.1 and decides to run it as fido when shuting off the system the first time, one has to insert a password for the user root. The field for inserting the password accepts strings of arbitrary length.

Nevertheless, I recognized afterwards, that not the whole inserted password is needed when running sudo. Instead it suffices to type in the 8 character prefix of the original password.

Changing the password using "sudo passwd root" and inserting a new one with length greater than 8 does not work, still the 8 character prefix is the new root password.

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